To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8335 ) 12/4/2000 7:48:24 AM From: Northern Marlin Read Replies (1) | Respond to Nadine, portions of your post are in italics:On November 8th, after it became clear how incredibly close this election would be, I think both camps made the same series of calculations. They looked at: Turns out, the majority of voting population using the old punch card machines, with their 2% error rates, were in Democratic areas. The majority of the voting population using the new scanning machines, with a 0.3% error rate, were in Republican areas. Therefore a manual recount, which would find missed votes, would benefit Gore more than Bush. This is assuming no bias, and no guessing at dimpled chads. Both camps came to the same conclusion. The Democrats filed for recounts in the large punch card counties. Therefore a manual recount, which would find missed votes, would benefit Gore more than Bush. "? I submit that this is your opinion only , not a logical conclusion based on known facts. The GOP began crying in unison: 'manual recounts are unheard of! unreliable! chaotic! vote invention!' etc., etc. your interpretation of the GOP's actions in regard to manual recounts?Remember, the cries began before any recount actually happened.
